I think that the thing that I hoped that would not be lost in my own child's situation was his day-to-day unguardedness and unreserved goodwill toward everyone he encounters. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There was nothing of his usual arrogance in his expression—she had never seen him look so unguarded, but even that unguardedness was mixed with a self-hatred that ran as deep as a wound. ❋ Cassandra Clare (2009)
I hope I never slide over into what I've always thought of as Thomas Kincaid country - precious and twee - but a bit of unguardedness true love, true friendship, true feeling is a relief sometimes, isn't it? ❋ Tanita Davis (2008)
He may sometimes be deceived through deficiency of judgment, but I believe not often by unguardedness; and, in a matter of interest, a _petit maitre_ of five-and-twenty might _tout en badinage_ ❋ An English Lady (N/A)
When in some moment of unguardedness I grieve the good Spirit, and become unwatchful, and in remorseful penitence I could almost weep my life away, the offering of my contrition is accepted, and there is One who heals my backsliding and soothes my fretting sorrow. ❋ Knowles King (N/A)
The examination finally ended, we all rose up, we two walked together and I reproached him very strongly for his unguardedness in such a critical condition. ❋ Unknown (1920)
"To have so much good work undone by a moment's unguardedness." ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
Perversely, she would have hated Rosalie had she caught her, in a single moment of unguardedness, revealing a feeling more tender than friendly interest for him. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)
I looked for something very extraordinary in their life and conversation; if I saw any of them to be light or trifling in the least, I was ready to doubt their Christianity, believing that true religion made men holy, solemn, and devoted, that it delivered them from levity and all unguardedness of word and action. ❋ Unknown (1887)
Had Janice been older and more experienced, the very unguardedness would have aroused her suspicions. ❋ Paul Leicester Ford (1883)
No. I don't think so, for she is often of a disconcerting frankness -- in moments, it is true, of forgetfulness and unguardedness. ❋ Keene [Translator] Wallace (1877)
He soon repented of this unguardedness, and he considered that this inordinate pleasure must be atoned for by penance. ❋ Heinrich Or Suso (1865)
Gerald was of course one of their subjects of conversation, and gradually Marian, with her strict regard to truth, from a little unguardedness, found herself involved in a tangle from which there was no escape, without telling the whole story of the Wreath of Beauty. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
What the wired world wants is honesty, unguardedness, apologies, freebies. ❋ Mlperryny (2009)
We're living in the era of the 60-second minute, where effective politicians must be comfortable with the instant responses, informality and unguardedness of tweeting, blogging, YouTube and Facebook. ❋ Unknown (2009)
These most inner images, the ones that come to you in the privacy of sleep, in the unguardedness of lying down and from your psychic midst—this phantomic caravan of images generated by you and you alone aren’t just bizarre to those you might report them to, they’re unintelligible even to you, their author. ❋ ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH (2010)
